Fashion Television (TV channel)

Fashion Television (officially named Fashion Television Channel) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Bell Media. The channel originally broadcast programming related to fashion, modelling, photography, art, architecture and design, and was fashioned after the CHUM Television original program, FashionTelevision.

Not to be confused with FashionTV.
Fashion Television
CountryCanada
Broadcast areaCanada
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Programming
Picture format480i (SDTV)
Ownership
OwnerBell Media
History
LaunchedSeptember 7, 2001
Links
Websitefashiontelevision.com
Availability
Cable
Available on many cable systemsChannel slots vary on each operator
Sky Cable (Philippines)Channel 128
Satellite
Bell Satellite TVChannel 605
Shaw DirectChannel 571
IPTV
Bell Aliant Fibe TVChannel 280
Bell Fibe TVChannel 605
Bell MTSChannel 293
Optik TVChannel 339
SaskTelChannel 107
VMediaChannel 266
ZazeenChannel 132

History

On November 24, 2000, CHUM Limited was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch Fashion Television: The Channel, described as "a national English-language specialty television service dedicated to fashion, beauty, style, art, architecture, photography and design."[1]

The channel was launched on September 7, 2001 as FashionTelevisionChannel.[2]

In July 2006, Bell Globemedia (later called CTVglobemedia) announced that it would purchase CHUM for an estimated $1.7 billion CAD.[3] The sale was approved by the CRTC in June 2007,[4] and the transaction was completed on June 22, 2007 with the Citytv stations were being sold to Rogers Media on October 31, 2007.

BCE (a minority shareholder in CTVglobemedia) announced on September 10, 2010, that it planned to re-acquire 100% interest in CTVglobemedia for a total debt and equity transaction cost of $3.2 billion CAD.[5] The deal which required CRTC approval, was approved on March 7, 2011[6] and closed on April 1 of that year, at which time CTVglobemedia was renamed Bell Media.[7]

The FashionTelevision series ended production in 2012, but repeats of that program and related series continued to air on the channel for a time. Along with BookTelevision, the channel later abandoned its original format, and began to primarily air reruns of library programming from other Bell Media networks with little relevance to fashion. The channel ceased investments in original Canadian programming, and was rarely promoted by Bell. In January 2021, the CRTC approved a request by Bell to revoke Fashion Television and BookTelevision's licenses, stating that it planned to shut both channels down on February 21.[8][9]

References
  1. Decision CRTC 2000-452 CRTC 2000-12-14
  2. The history of CHUM Globe and Mail article 2006-06-12
  3. Bell Globemedia acquires CHUM Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine; Fasken Martineau; 2006-07-12
  4. Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2007-165; CRTC; 2007-06-08
  5. Bell Canada (2010-09-10). "Bell to acquire 100% of Canada's No.1 media company CTV". CNW Group. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
  6. CRTC approves BCE's purchase of CTVglobemedia Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  7. Bell completes acquisition of CTV, launches Bell Media business unit Archived April 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine CNW 2011-04-01
  8. Faguy, Steve. "Bell Media to shut down Fashion Television and Book Television on Feb. 22". Retrieved 2021-01-21.
  9. "Fashion Television Channel – Revocation of licence". crtc.gc.ca. Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-01-21.

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